Esmahan Sultan Mosque
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Esmahan Sultan Mosque | |
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Moscheea Esmahan Sultan | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Sunni Islam |
Location | |
Location | Oituz Street 1, Mangalia, Constanța County, Romania |
Architecture | |
Type | Mosque |
Completed | 1575 |
Specifications | |
Minaret(s) | 1 |
Materials | Carved stone |
Esmahan Sultan Mosque (Romanian: Moscheea Esmahan Sultan) is the oldest mosque in Romania.
Located in Mangalia, Constanța County, it serves a community of 800 Muslim families, most of them of Turkish and Tatar ethnicity.
History[]
Esmehan Sultan Mosque was constructed in 1575 by its namesake, Ismihan, the daughter of Ottoman Sultan Selim II and Nurbanu Sultan, and wife of Ottoman Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha.
It was renovated in the 1990s and includes a graveyard with 300-year-old tombstones.
Different angle
Inside the mosque
References[]
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- (in Romanian) Moscheea ridicată de prinţesa Esmahan, Jurnalul Naţional
- Muftiyat of Romania - contains detailed information about mosques in Romania
Coordinates: 43°48′37″N 28°34′59″E / 43.81028°N 28.58306°E
Categories:
- Mangalia
- Mosques completed in 1575
- Ottoman mosques in Romania
- Buildings and structures in Constanța County
- Historic monuments in Constanța County
- Religious buildings and structures completed in 1575
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- Romanian building and structure stubs